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J. P. FRENIER.

REPRIGBRATOR.

(No Model.)

180,889,148. Patented sept. 4, 1888.

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IINTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH F. FRENIER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONEAIIALF TO EDVIN IV. JEWELL, OF SAME PLAGE.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,143, dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed May 21, 1887. Serial No. 238,973. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn F. FRENIER, of Cincinnati,in the county of Hamilton andState of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Iniprovement in Refrigerators, which improve nient is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings,in which- Figure I is a perspective view, partly in seetion, of my improvement in refrigerators or cooling-rooms; and Fig. II a vertical section of the same.

The object of my invention is to construct a cheap and ellicient refrigerator or coolingroom; and it consists in dividing up the space to be devoted to the purpose into preferably three or more compartments, in the center compartment of which the icechambcr is located, and in further so arranging the double walls between the ice chamber and the e.\:terd nal chambers that the cold air from the icechamber will enter the cooling-rooms near the tioor, all of which will now be fully set forth iu detail.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the outer walls of the structure. These are made double, as shown, and suitably packed, as is usual for this purpose. This is divided, as shown, into three separate compartments, the center portion, B, being designed for the ice, while the other two compartments are the storing-rooms.

rIhe walls between the ice and storage rooms are made double, with a space, lil, between them, the inner walls, F, having a series of holes or openings, G, at intervals from the floor to the ceiling, while the outer walls, H, have openings I above the elevated floor J of the ice-chamber, and also openings or passage-ways K below the icechamber floor. Apertures Il are also formed through the walls H at the ceiling, which apertures communicate with the air-duet M above the ice-chamber B. This duct is formed by a ceiling-wall,

N, above the ice chamber, and centrally through this ceiling is an opening, O, through which the warm air enters the ice-chamber from the storage-rooms C D. The openings I L are provided with sliding gates I), whereby the circulation of air through the chambers is regulated. It will thus be seen that the iceehamber is completelysurrounded by a doublewalled partition, having an air-duct on all sides and apertures all over the inner wall, so that the cold air generated by the ice will pass through the apertures G and escape thence through the chambers C D near the floor. As the air within the latter chambers grows warmer it will ascend and enter the openings L, and pass thence through the Aduct M and opening O into the icechan1bcr,to be returned through the storage-chambers, as before.

The outer walls ofthe structure have one or more full-sized doors, It, and smaller doors S, through which entrance can be had to the chambers. The ice-chamber is provided with doors T, as shown, and the entire refrigerator is constructed with the view of giving facility for using the various chambers and for filling the ice-chamber.

\Vhat I claim as new isM In refrigerators, the ice-chamber, located between the storageroonis, having doublewalled partitions between the icechamber and storageioonis, the wall next the ice-chamber having apertures through its entire area, and the walls next the storage-chambers having apertures near the floor and ceiling. each provided with gates, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, this 13th day of May, i887, in the presence of witnesses.

JOSEPII F. FRENIER.

Vitnesses:

.Ion H. Barmer, J. S. Znunn. 

